The Gorman Group web site is being redesigned.  Although this page is not yet completed, it is a pivotal part of the Gorman Group web site.  When completed, this page will list links to numerous appraisal and legal resources.  

Title XI - The federal law dictating the licensing of appraisers

Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions  The federal guidelines to land acquisition.  This is a very large file (1.8 megabytes) and is in pdf formant.

The Trust for Public Land  An organization involved in land conservation.  There are often sales of large tract of land noted on their site.

State legal resource guide

Enviromapper  an interactive map showing environmentally controlled sites and superfund sites.  A slow but excellent site.

Public records site - some good free record information

Vandema - a commercial real estate links resource

AREUEA American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association. 

Fereral Reserve Beige Book reports.  Banking regulations and other information can be found at their policy page

State Statutes on the internet  from the law school at Cornell

University of California Berkeley - The Haas Scholl of Business

The Samuel Zell Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania

Isolated Wetlands - Tribune Newspapers (Los Angeles Times) article dated November 16, 2003 - Not all isolated wetlands are protected.   ..."The U.S. Supreme Court rules in 2001, that under the Clean Water Act, the government can protect waterways that are navigable or tributaries or marshes that drain into navigable waters -- but can no longer regulate "non-navigable, isolated intrastate" ponds, wetlands or mud flats just because they provide a habitat for migratory birds."